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Kahan, Pakistan Kahan is a village and Tehsil (Pakistan), tehsil in Kohlu District in Pakistan's Balochistan (Pakistan), Balochistan province. The tehsil had a total population of in 2017. It is bounded by Kohlu to the north, Barkhan to the North East, Dera Bug ...

, a village and tehsil in Balochistan, Pakistan *

Kahan, Iran Kahan ( fa, كاهان, also Romanized as Kāhān; also known as Kāhān-e Bālā (Persian: كاهان بالا) and Kāhān-e ‘Olyā) is a village in Yam Rural District, Meshkan District, Khoshab County , settlement_type = County ...

, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran *

Kahan, Isfahan Kowhan ( fa, كوهان, also Romanized as Kowhān and Kūhān; also known as Golshanābād, Gūhān, and Kahān) is a village in Rezvaniyeh Rural District Rezvaniyeh Rural District ( fa, دهستان رضوانيه) is a rural district (''dehes ...

, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran *

Kahan-e Pain Kahan-e Pain ( fa, كاهان پائين, also Romanized as Kāhān-e Pā’īn; also known as Kāhān-e Soflá) is a village in Meshkan Rural District, Meshkan District, Khoshab County , settlement_type = County , image_skyline ...

, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

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William Kahan William "Velvel" Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who received the Turing Award in 1989 for "''his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis''", was named an ACM Fellow in 1994, and inducte ...

, Canadian mathematician *

Kahan summation algorithm In numerical analysis, the Kahan summation algorithm, also known as compensated summation, significantly reduces the numerical error in the total obtained by adding a sequence of finite-precision floating-point numbers, compared to the obvious appro ...

, a mathematical algorithm attributed to William Kahan *

Scott I Kahan Scott I. Kahan is an American physician, writer, and internationally recognized expert on obesity prevention and treatment. He is the director of the Strategies To Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance, a nonprofit coalition of more than ...

, American physician *

Yitzhak Kahan Yitzhak Kahan ( he, יצחק כהן; November 15, 1913 – April 24, 1985) was President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1982 until 1983. He was the Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut also ...

, 6th President of the Supreme Court of Israel * Kahan Commission, an Israeli investigation into the Sabra and Shatila Massacre in Lebanon * Noah Kahan, American singer

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